Tuning Into the Universe — A LII’s Guide to Introverted Intuition

Hello everyone! Today I'm going to talk about how dreams come true and wishes are fulfilled through the channel of Extraverted Intuition. Naturally, we will be talking about representatives of my type and my personal experience—meaning the LII type.

LIIs have Extraverted Intuition in a creative function. If you don't feel your creative Intuition, then, as the famous joke goes, it means you simply don't know how to cook it. I didn't find or discover this in myself right away either.

With us, however, certain events or problem solutions often seem to happen all by themselves. It looks like a random coincidence, so for a long time, I didn't attach any importance to it and didn't consider it something worth paying attention to at all. Only later, as I grew older, did I understand how it works for me and how to use it.

Any task, of course, initially requires introversion: letting circumstances and the world solve the problem for you, so to speak. At least, that's exactly how it happens for me. Of course, I think about any arising task for a while, especially a serious one. I study information, gather it, and look at what I've already heard or read on the topic. Then, at some point, I just shelve it and look after current tasks—more straightforward, maybe even more domestic, mundane daily routines.

And literally after a short period, external signals start coming to me in the most literal sense, all related to my big problem or task. I might overhear something, see an advertisement, or get a call from someone I haven't spoken to in ages who says something specific. One way or another, in some magical fashion, it is always connected to the task or problem I am seriously pondering.

During one of these external information influxes, a "click" inevitably happens. It's as if a light bulb goes off: "Yes, exactly! This, this is what I need! That's what I should do!" It comes as a ready-made solution. This isn't just the result of logical work; it is precisely an external signal, and internally it resonates very clearly as a desire to act exactly that way.

Since LII (well, me as a representative of the type) is a very structural, serious logician, they often make this mistake: trying to process this incoming impulse through logic, looking for confirmation that this solution is indeed optimal and that this is truly how one should act. This is partly a trap as well. Sometimes the solution doesn't actually seem logical in the moment, but a bell rings inside, a light flashes: "Need to, need to, need to, exactly this, that's where we're going!" And if you listen to this, at least in some key life matters, life somehow steers you onto the right track on its own. It carries you right to where you can take the shortest path to solving your problem and fulfilling your dream. I probably can't even explain how it works in greater detail than that.

Moreover, if you miss this moment, if you don't allow yourself to relax a bit and just absorb from the outside, just listen to these signals... That is, if a desire arises to jump right in and start solving the task through concrete actions—"I am marching toward my goal!"—this doesn't work very well for a LII (at least, for me personally).

Because when there gets to be too much noise around, when I suddenly start hearing and listening to lots of people advising me, asking them, "What should I do? What did you do in this situation?", and generating excessive activity myself... At this stage—between pondering the problem and the arrival of the ready-made solution—if you overdo it and show too much activity, then in this hustle, in this external noise (I feel it physically), static starts appearing like on a radio. And I might miss the right signal, the one that is right specifically for me. In other words, this external noise, hustle, and other people's opinions prevent me from tuning into myself and hearing my optimal solution.

That's exactly how it works for me. So, by and large, this gives rise to the partial stereotype that a LII doesn't listen to advice. And it's not just a stereotype; it's the truth, if you look at it that way. Because he really will arrive at the optimal solution on his own—with the help of some external signals and internal impulses. But he will arrive at a solution that is optimal specifically for him. In most cases, this solution won't work for anyone else. Most of the time, he can't advise other people on what they should do. But he can learn to track this alignment with external signals himself, and then he will always arrive at the exact point that is optimal for him.

That's probably how it is. So I know for a fact about myself that I've had cases where this light bulb literally goes off: "Need to, need to, need to, I need this!" And I can't build a logical chain as to why exactly I should act this way. But if this sound, this inner voice, is very persistent, and you follow it, you go after it, using logic only to course-correct along the way, then sooner or later you arrive at a next step that is truly right for you. Things just work themselves out along the way, and it starts to seem like it happened all by itself.

But in reality, that's just how it works for us. Introverted Intuition is, on one hand, a very deep alignment with oneself, with one's internal tuning forks, and on the other hand, a sensitivity to external signals. The main thing is not to overdo the hustle, not to overdo any activity before the solution has matured, before it comes as a ready-made resolution. Well, that's the only way I can explain it.

And then real miracles truly start to happen: problems solve themselves, solutions find themselves. Often, these solutions are not obvious, not the ones you could figure out through sequential reasoning, but rather a ready-made, optimal solution. And this is important—not to shoot it down with logic and to learn to hear it within yourself.

That's my take on it. My alignment with myself always comes from within, not from the outside through other people, but from within—by listening to this internal tuning fork: "this is it / this isn't it," "we're going there / not here," "this is the right way," "yes, this is needed, this is needed for some reason." And in the end, this voice always leads to the right place.

Source: O. Mikhevnina